Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divina commedia : reduced facsimiles after the originals in the Royal Museum, Berlin, and in the Vatican Library (1896)
Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 5-1510, Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Baldini, Baccio · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 42
rises, by which Dante is stunned. He falls to the ground, as if overtaken by sudden sleep. His prostrate form appears in the extreme corner of the print to the rio-ht. THE SECOND ENGRAVING TO THE THIRD CANTO OF THE IN- FERNO is a reversed replica of all the main features of the first print, much… … This print appears in a few copies of the Florentine edition of the Corn- media published in 1481, and is generally placed at the foot of the opening page of the first chapter, the original forming the head-piece above. The drawing and general treatment of the replica shew it to have been executed…
